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Re: Keep checking your GPS
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Feb 12, 02:20 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Feb 12, 02:20 -0500
On 2/12/2015 12:36 AM, Peter Minta wrote: >...; publish the leap-second schedule 10 or 20 or 50 years in advance; use TAI for system internals > (such as filesystem and network timestamps), even if off-Earth. Admittedly I'm working well below your pay grade, and often unable to differentiate between tongue-in-cheek, sarcasm and sardonic wit. How on Earth (an Earth that seems to be slowing down its rotation in relation to the Sun--for now and the foreseeable future in an unpredictable manner) do we "publish the leap-second schedule 10 or 20 or 50 years in advance?"